Health of the Source

I pretty regularly give a talk entitled “The health of the source”. The subject of the talk is everything that has happened in health FOSS, since the last time I gave the talk. Thankfully things move along fast enough that I am never short of content. You will find this article dripping with useful bias and opinion. This is not merely a list of projects but also what I think of the projects. I might be omitting your favorite project intentionally, because I think it is irrelevant, OR out of ignorance, OR because I am limiting the scope. For instance this time I did not include much on clinical research (openclinica) or imaging, since my TEPR audience might not be interested in those.

This intended to reference Larry Walls regular summary of the perl community typically entitled “state of the onion“. (I am suffering from pun envy here… if you have something better… let me know) As I was writing yet another throw-away Open Office presentation, I was lamenting the fact that I had not posted anything really meaty on my blog lately, and I thought I should post my presentation. Then I was thinking how each page of my presentation would really serve as a blog post by itself. Then I realized that I could write one blog post, and if I kept each page short enough to fit above the fold on my little laptop, I could make a postentation. ( <- just invented this word)

So if you would like, you can now read my latest presentation just by clicking on the page numbers on this post. Hopefully it is coherent enough to read without me talking about each slide. But if not, leave me a comment and I will try and fix things.